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Best Dislocation Poems

Below are the all-time best Dislocation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dislocation poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Remember Jacob
REMEMBER JACOB

what is normal?
i’m back to it
with my back
to the negativity
a smile securely
in place, in place of
the fog that was raging,
raging strong…
fighting me (how
do you...

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Categories: dislocation, angst, christian,
Form: Free verse



Came a Cold Mountain
Quietly now, 
my serenading sky 
you to me are!
almost radiant and high, facing the light
be about your plants of green 
your strewn paths and needles
let...

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Categories: dislocation, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Any Atheists Out There
I
I am with Liberty
At least I was
Until 2019, before the Virus
Now as in puerile freedoms
(Just words, not many will sacrifice for;
Most people go along, as...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocation, angst, atheist, christian, gospel,
Form: Verse
Prayer
I pray to gain great so the pains will leave my lane, drain

I seek light, that is brightness so I will leave the night darkness

I...

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Categories: dislocation, beautiful, image, prayer, repetition,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the...

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Categories: dislocation, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration,
Form: Narrative



Reclamation
I was taken from this life 
in the black night, blindfolded 
to be clubbed to death

so that I 
might be born again 
in spirit song,...

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© Soulfire  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocation, history, native american, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes - Xiii
Unquotable quotes – XIII

Follow love for it’s free, free love and it’ll flee.
Do unto others as you would have them undress you.
Easy come, eenie meenie...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocation, education, humor, inspirational, parody,
Form: Epigram
Remission of Love
I kind of getting in motion just to control my emotions.
With every condition 
I find nothing but division in every portion.
All positions seem to be...

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Categories: dislocation, anniversary, betrayal, break up,
Form: Alliteration
Anti-Ode To Rain
The big 'R', do you actually know what you're doing
To our week nation,
Absolute panic stations, feckin banter deflation, endless duration
Eternal damnation the foundation, our country's...

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Categories: dislocation, angst, emotions, funny, hate,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Messages of Liberation
Hopes and prayers soar in aspiration
  In this season of heightened anticipation  
When diverse cultures in our great nation
  Await their holidays...

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Categories: dislocation, freedom, holiday, hope, light,
Form: Monorhyme
Internal Bleeding
Alcohol coats over her synapses,
slipping easily through all the cracks in her mentality.
She dulls like steel against his memory –
she contracts into herself and curls
in...

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Categories: dislocation, confusion
Form: Free verse
My Little Heroine
Heroes come from all corners of the world
I hadn't thought about that until the 1998 Goodwill Games
Where she got injured and could be paralyzed
Meet my...

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Categories: dislocation, sports,
Form: Free verse
The Third Coming
The first duo 
The candidate we can trust

Manifesto reads 
War against corruption 

The second duo
The best man for the jobs

Manifesto reads
The rule of law prevails...

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Categories: dislocation, confusion, dark, death, dedication,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member World Rule
Planet of unsettling decline
             losing our swagger of firm footing
   ...

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Categories: dislocation, appreciation, care, earth, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spaces 1
SHADY LADIES





Hostas


Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space...

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Categories: dislocation, imagination,
Form: Imagism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things